My Symptoms: First Trimester

Before I knew I was pregnant-

How on Earth did I not know I was pregnant? Our best guess now is that I am 9 weeks, unnoticed, even with the following symptoms:

I had what I thought was the stomach flu for a little over a week. I felt so horrible that I drank a bottle of pepto in a day. At least it was a small bottle, but when I was admitted to the hospital for parenthesia in the left side of my face, for what I later found out was a symptom of my tumor, I embarrassingly mentioned to my doctor that I had black poop. I had no idea that Pepto Bismol could cause that.  Consequently, my boobs had been sore for a while, and it was hard to lay on my stomach. This should have been a dead giveaway clue. I suppose that I was just hoping that my A cups were finally growing, after all this time. I had been dieting and losing a lot of weight, eating so many green veggies that I was attesting any pain to.

The next week I had a migraine, that left me exhausted, and motion sick. I usually play video games when I feel too miserable to move, but this time when I played minecraft, I thought I was 12 again and puking in my friends car due to motion sickness. Maybe if someone had described morning sickness as motion sickness, I would caught on.

Morning Sickness:
Okay, for those of you who would like morning sickness explained, yes mine started as motion sickness, but after a while it transformed into a smell induced sickness, accompanied by occasional heartburn, burping, gas and farting, and being generally overly bloated, and everything you eat seems to expand quickly, so it is easy to over eat. Most people vomit, somewhere around 80%, I have only felt like I needed to. If I am really hungry and I smell something, (and when I say really hungry, I mean that pain in your stomach every 5- 30 minutes that can be remedied by food.), if I smell something strong, whether the smell agrees with me or not, while I am hungry I feel unnervingly sick. It is like the hungrier I am, the more susceptible I am to smells. That pizza can smell delicious, but if your too hungry when you smell it, you will want to vomit. Other people might experience morning sickness a little differently, and I currently envy those people.

Dumbo brain: There are now times of day when people must hear me talk and wonder how in the world I will make it as a mother with a brain as slow as mine lately. Especially if they don't know me.

Crying so suddenly that you surprise yourself. I can't say that I cry over nothing, because of course while I am crying, whatever it is about, I promise it is important. I cried last night because I was so happy to lay down after my long day. Tears of joy.

Losing weight: Apparently that is quite common in the first trimester. With every appointment (for my tumor) I was losing weight, but if it weren't for the scale, I would have thought I was gaining because I have been so bloated.

Overwhelming sense of smell, but you just think everything around you suddenly stink.

And last but no least: I desperately needed a Long John from Krispy Kreme. I needed one so bad that I dreamt about them. I had a dream that there was a long john donut inside of a tiny cookie dough ball, that much like the Tardis, was bigger on the inside, and all of this was going on in an imaginary DQ blizzard. I currently live in the middle of nowhere, literally, I am not on google maps. So a few days pass and we found a truck stop that had donuts, and my favorite flavors in the world are pumpkin. They had nothing but pumpkin donuts and I cried because I needed a long john.
(he found me a long john a few days later :)